Tim Robbins

“Great artist I heard this film is amazing and this has just been recommended to me never seen this I'm very curious about this...”

“The first film that I saw in my life that changed my perception of film and basically made me believe that I could someday make a film was Altman's Nashville I saw it in the theaters when I was a teenager and there was something so epic in the scope of it something so a spirit of also mischievousness which I would later learn is one of the best things about working with Robert Altman...”

“Oh there it is this is a great film Sweet Smell of Success...”

“This is an amazing film there's a reporter that goes undercover in a mental institution and try to solve a murder and there's a scene in it that is shocking even now where a African-American inmate stands up on top of a box and starts giving a speech... And I asked Sam about it he says yeah that's not I didn't write that he said that comes from Congressional Record that's direct speech by a congressman... He did that kind of subversive writing and film making...”

“Another movie that changes your life there's that great part in that where he talks about living in New York and how he's questioning whether New York is just one big jail and we don't think that we can get out of it we've convinced ourselves as New Yorkers that we can never leave it I haven't seen that for 30 years...”